A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use of in the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music: Also Explanations of the Doctrines of Ancient Music, and Mathematical and Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Sound with regard to Intervals, Concords, and Discords: Together with A full Description of all the various Kinds of Musical Instruments (not contained in any other Dictionary). The whole carefully abstracted from the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages, By James Grassineau, Gent. A New Edition, to which is added An Appendix, selected from the Dictionnaire de Musique of M. Rousseau: Containing All the New Improvements in Music since the first Publication of this Dictionary.
1769
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A musical dictionary [electronic resource] : containing a full explanation of all the terms made use of in the historical, theoretical, and practical parts of music: Also Explanations of the Doctrines of Ancient Music, and Mathematical and Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Sound with regard to Intervals, Concords, and Discords: Together with A full Description of all the various Kinds of Musical Instruments (not contained in any other Dictionary). The whole carefully abstracted from the best Authors in the Greek, Latin, Italian, French, and English Languages, By James Grassineau, Gent. A New Edition, to which is added An Appendix, selected from the Dictionnaire de Musique of M. Rousseau: Containing All the New Improvements in Music since the first Publication of this Dictionary.
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Dictionnaire de musique. English
Edition
A new edition, to which is added an appendix, selected from the Dictionnaire de musique of M. Rousseau: ..
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London : printed for J. Robson, Bookseller, at the Feathers in New Bond Street, MDCCLXIX. [1769]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
Description
xii,347,[1];[4],52p.,plates : music,engr.music ; 8⁰.
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In fact a translation of the 'Dictionnaire de musique' by Sébastien de Brossard.
A reissue of the edition printed for J. Wilcox, 1740, with a new half-title and titlepage, and to which has been added: 'Appendix to Grassineau's Musical dictionary' with separate titlepage, pagination and register.
Half-title: 'Grassineau's Musical dictionary: .. '.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
A reissue of the edition printed for J. Wilcox, 1740, with a new half-title and titlepage, and to which has been added: 'Appendix to Grassineau's Musical dictionary' with separate titlepage, pagination and register.
Half-title: 'Grassineau's Musical dictionary: .. '.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T112419.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Grassineau, James, ca. 1715-1769.
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